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“Anthropogenic Climate Destabilization: A Worst-case Scenario”
Participant Biography
September 12–14, 2008 | Bellevue, Washington
Jerome C. Glenn
Jerome C. Glenn is the Director of The Millennium Project (on global futures research) of the World Federation of United Nations Associations and co-author with Ted Gordon of the annual State of the Future of the Millennium Project for the past twelve years. He has 37 years of futures research experience working for governments, international organizations, and private industry in science and technology policy, environmental security, economics, education, defense, space, futures research methodology, international telecommunications, and decision support systems with the Committee for the Future, Hudson Institute, Future Options Room, and the Millennium Project. He has addressed over 300 government departments, universities, NGOs, UN organizations, and/or corporations around the world on a variety of future-oriented topics.
Recent research includes: Global Energy Collective Intelligence, National Future Strategy Units, Future Education and Learning Possibilities by 2030, Global Energy Scenarios for 2020, the Future of Ethics, 2025 Science and Technology Scenarios, Middle East Peace Scenarios, and Military R&D Priorities to Reduce Health and Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology.
Glenn was the Deputy Director of Partnership for Productivity International involved in national strategic planning, institutional design, training, and evaluation in economic development in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America and created CARINET in 1983 as the leading computer network in the developing world, subsequently bought by CGNet. He has been an independent consultant for World Bank, UNDP, UNU, UNESCO, FAO, UNEP, US/EPA, USAID, and several governments and corporations.
He invented the “Futures Wheel,” a futures assessment technique, Futuristic Curriculum Development, and concepts such as conscious-technology, transinstitutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, definition of environmental security, feminine brain drain, just-in-time knowledge and learning, information warfare, feelysis, nodes as a management concept for interconnecting global and local views and actions, and coined the term futuring in 1973. Saturday Review named him among the most unusually gifted leaders of America for his pioneering work in tropical medicine (national leprosy system while a Peace Corp volunteer), future-oriented education, and participatory decision making systems in 1974. He was instrumental in naming the first Space Shuttle “the Enterprise” and banning the first space weapon (FOBS) in SALT II.
He has published over 100 future-oriented articles in such as The Nikkei, ADWEEK, International Tribune, LEADERS, The New York Times, McGraw-Hill’s Contemporary Learning Series, Current, Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Journal, Foresight, Futures, Technological Forecasting, Futures Research Quarterly, and The Futurist. He is editor of Futures Research Methodology, versions 1.0 and 2.0.
Glenn has a BA in philosophy from American University and an MA in Teaching Social Science – Futuristics from Antioch Graduate School of Education (now Antioch University New England). He was a doctoral candidate in general futures research at the University of Massachusetts. He received the Donella Meadows Metal, Kondratieff Metal, Emerald Citation of Excellence, honorary professorship and doctor’s degrees from two universities in South America (Universidad Ricardo Palma). And he is a leading boomerang stuntman.
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